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TEE SECT C3.3TY JKIUL' I. J. SIMMONS, Proprietor HABBISOX, NEBRASKA. Protection. Ex(k44. 8aji Fuascisco, Cal., Feb. 10. Tin most Important newt brought by tbt steamship Australia, which armed from Honolulu at3o'cock yesterday morning, is that United States .Minis ter Stevens had establised a protec torate over the islands. '1 he act was acknowledged at 9 o'clock on the morn ing of the 1st inst., when the stars and tripes were raised on Aliuolani I' ill, and Minister Stevens issued the follow- in? proclamation: ' the Hawaiian People: At the e qu - i of the provisional grovernm-nt of Hawaiian islands, I hereby, in the name of the United States of Anif. ica, assume protection of I hi Hawaiian islands, for the protection of lift and property and occupation of public buildings on Hawaiian soi as far as may be necessary for the pur poi e specified, but not interfering with th administration of public affairs by the provisional goverment. This ac tion is taken pending and subject of negotiations at Washington. John L. Stevexs. Envoy Extraordinary and Mini er Plenipotentiary of the United States, Legation, February 1. 1893. Approved and executed by C. C, Wi'tz, captain, I nited States navy, com manding the United States steam: Boston. ip The Advertiser says regarding the Stevens' proclamation that the action wis principally due to the incessant agitation on the part of certain whites, who have always been the curse of the country, coupled with English and 'ia live newspaper efforts to discredit nd block the new government. These agencies spread through the town feeling of uneasiness and distrust The provisional government con eluded that some positive step was neiessary, and it would be wisest to cal. on the United States for direct as sistance. The Advertiser, continuing, ays: ' At 8:30 a. m, on the 1st. the Boston's battalion was landed, under Lleuten ant Commander Swinburn, and sent up to the government building, where ie tachments from the volunteer com panies' provisional government were drawn up. Lieutenant Bush read Mr. Stevens' proclamation, and on the stroke of 9 the star spangled banner fluttered up the staff on the tower. The flag was saluted by the troops and marines, and the heavier guns of 'he Boston and Hawaii were under Uncle am's wing for the time being, at least. The Hawaiian flag still flies on the court yard; the palace, barracks, police station, custom house, etc., remain in possession of the provisional govern ment, which will administer public business, as usual. The arms and amunition will be withdrawn from Aluioluni, which, until definite intelligence arrives from the United States, will be guarded by a detach ment from Boston. Public confidence In the ability of the provisional govern' -meat to preserve order and quiet is manifest everywhere, as well as b 'is position on the part of the citizens to co-operate in every possible way to assist it. President San ford B. Dole on January 20 issued a proclamation announcing that all powers, duties, etc, required of the sovereign of the Hawaiian kingdom should be here after vested in and performed by the president of the provisional govern ' ment and that the executive council would perform the duties of the cabinet Another proclamation announced that if any person, recruit, soldier or sailor wi'hin the Hawaiian islands should encage in armed hostility against the government or act. in any other trea sonable manner, he shall be punished by , fine and imprisonment, not less . than six months nor more than six years. The proclamation also de manded that all persons in the employ of the government take the oath of allegiance within twenty days. At a meeting of the executive pud advisory councils on January 23, it vm decided to send notification of "Jte appointment of S. B. Dole as president of the provisional government, to the rotors of foreign powers, and to organize a national guard of four companies. W. O. Ashley was ap ointed marshal, and J. R. Scper commander of the forces, with the rack of colonel. Martial law still con tinues at Honolulu, but the hours have been lessened. Its proclamation re suJ ad in the maintenance of complete ortler and diffused a feeling of security throughout the community. Among the passengers - on the sterner were Paul Keuman. the deposed queen's attorney, and Pr'oce Ksvanakow, who are on their way to Washington to; present the queen's CM. . : Tb hntai Paius, Feb. ,10. The Panama sen (scats have just been delivered . M. Ferdinand de Lessens and M. Charles da Lreeeps an sentenced to lmprison snent for five jam, and to pay a One fkVUOu francs. If. Marias Fontaoe and M. Conn are each sentenced to in atfowwioat for twit years. U. Eiffel ia sentenced to Imprison. rt for two rears fjd to nav a. ww pww.iewiiwi an rc. j ta or u. Ferdinand de ia- V rite Judgment finds the da. ot wia4Uagaa4 rTl Cd a beauty r J Id twisty Mil Iwt n t,i3e , t jd tp w"VExiai rrty-MV Uvea Dover, n. H., Feb. 11. The county insane asylum four miles from here was burned last night and forty four lives were lost. When Watch man William Chevey made his 10 o'clock trip into the insane asylum be found the fire coming from the cell occupied by A. Lafamitain, a woman. and gave the alarm. William Driacoli the keeper, whose family lived in the building at once broke the locks of the forty-four cells and tried to get the inmates out, then he got his wife and children out, neither of whom were dressed. Of forty-eight inmate only xour escaped. They are William Twombly, Rose Sanderson, William Davey and Frank Donation . The latter walked two miles in blinding snow storm with only his shirt on to William Home's house, where he was taken care of. The keeper's books were burned in the building. One woman escaped to the yard, but was burned to death there. The buildiag was of. wood, 133x36 feet, two star tea high, with a b g yard on either side. It was built twenty years ago and had fifty cells. The building cos: $15,000. .(. . ... in main ouiiaing, in which were over 100 of the county poor, caught fire, but was saved by the heroic efforts of the inmates, who carried pails of water and extinguished the names, although many were burned iu so doing. The Dover fire department was summoned, but owing to the distance, the blinding snow storm and the icy roads, it took ninty-five minutes for the department to get mere, ana was too lata to be of any service. The smoking ruins show the charred bodies still lying on their beds now me Duuaing caught fire te a mystery. 1 round Galltj. Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 11. The trial of Henry Baner and Carl Nolo, as accessories to Bergman the anarchist' in the attempted assassination of Henry C. Frick in July last wss begun yesterday before Judge Single. Judge Slagle in his charge instructed the jury to render a verdict of guilty. The jury was cut ten minutes and re tured with a verdict in accordance with the judge's charge. Judge Slagle sent Bauer up and, fined him' ISO and sentenced him to sixty days in jail for contempt of court in refusing to answer questions while on the witness stana. The same defendants are on trial again. Ak for Additional Appropriation. Washington, D. C, Feb. 11. A delegation appeared before the com mittee on appropriations to show cause why congress should make additional appropriations for the World's fair President Willetts of the government board asked for 1201,750, in order to en able the board to complete its exhibit, pack and ship it to Chicago and make it ready for exhibition. This, be said, would bring the total appropriation ui to the $1,000,000 originally estimated as nectssary for the government exhibit. Lieutenant TfS ley, reprinting the navy department, asked for f 40,000 t fully equip and man the brigg ship hnBovd Thatcher, in behalf of tht national commission, wanted $570 88i to defray the expense of procuring medals and diplomas, and emp o in judges. The commissions wished i. know what proportion of the judge; would be females, and the discussim hat followed left that subject in doub the commission promising that women wouia be proportionately represented among the judges. At President Palmer's request Mr. St. Clair, speak ing in behalf of the commission, ureei an original appropriation of $138,185 tnd a deficiency appropriation o S27.GOO, which was necessary to com plete the commission's work. From France. Pakis, Feb., 11. Papers Of al: shades of opinion comment on th- severity of the sentences in the Panama canal cases, especialy that of Ferdinand De Lesseps' whose genius was the glory of France. Cattu aud Chas. Ue Lesseps have decided to appeal from the finding. The tribunal of Seive de livered a decision in the suit of madame Seborowski, formerly Madame uesmrea, wira oftheDabet Minister to ranee, who secured a divorce in south Dakota and married Seborowski and who asked the court for the custody of bar child. Under the South Dakota decree the court refused to grant the petition or to consider the merits of the case. V ' wa Wreefca, ,4, '' Detroit, Mich, Feb. 11. A special to the News from Petoskey, Mich- says: Then ware four wracks on the Grand Rapids ft Indiana railroads last night. Three freights are in the ditch, with no one hurt but on Mantoa hill a horrible accident occurred. Con ductor Harry Chamberlain, in charge of the mixed train tooth, i hadi i. jured jBraxeman Watting was killed, and Harry Burleson, a teavaUnt mSS- nwi ivr im star uooung company, was roasted to death, only one aratpe ing found. The accident was canned by the south bound passenger crashing Into caboose of the freight, which was helping to path the mixad train, y HteoHMBra4. : ! PasmL Tax. Teh. ll.-News baa faint been raeeiva that the bod of Will Butler has been found haagtnc M a limb and riddled with bullets, aavl amvrj rwsk; nvs sauas. foatMaatj ww uty. J3UWOT WM Henry smith, who was creaaatad a oMiwoWMry l tad aatertouertatttareh far IT t2Ti KM kit stopsoBj cf 4 Mm Umit- wlsfc mc rv. BDBOATIONAI. WKWS. Xbe increase in the number of stu dents attending college ia the east ell as In the west is remarkable. The nav catalogue of Yale thews that there are 1967 students In attendance this year. The class of W numbers 507 bile toe corresponding class of it year ago contained 468 students. Harvard has 3966 student with a freshman class numbering 409. lo the numerous opportunities for higher education which have been opened to women during the past year nas, recently, been added the graduate department of John Hopkins Univer sity in Baltimore. In 1877 the trustee passed a resolution admitting women to the graduate courses. The resolu tion, however, was not confirmed by the professors until a month or two ago. This gives the women the right to pursue their studies under the same regulations that govern their brothers. They may, also, be examined and proved to the degree of Ph. D. after the manner prescribed for the young men. Education in the south seems to be taking a turn in the right direction. 2Ke people of Alabama, especially, are mazing more ana more, the benefits tdbe derived by a state whose citizens belong to an intellectual and moral class. They are rallying to the sun. port of the public school system. Last yaar the sum of $627,91 1 was paid out for that purpose. The state approp- td 35,000 of this amount while the balance was secured from various funds and taxes levied for school purposes. The children in attendance at the dif- feaent institutions of learning com prised 300,000 whites and 240.000 col ored. This is an indication that the Jfagro population is rapidly learning to appreciate the benefits to be derived from an education. "The schools are ineteasing in numbers, the attendance ia belter, and the public appropriations by local taxation" to a degree .hitherto unknown. The University of Liege. Belgium. uas just celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of its foundation. The country hat passed through manv changes during this time. The college was in existence moat of the period of the union between Holland and Bel. glum, and during the independent tingaom or the latter. The students xave always been patriotic. They have ovea their country first, but, at the same time, they have been active in promoting the spirit of international union. The roll of professors has in cluded many distinguished names The students number at present about one thousand and thirty, of whom two hundred are foreigners. CBivonllr of KobnMka. Governor Crounse has reappointed Paof. E. H. Parbour, of the depart m-it of geology in the University of Ne braska, acting state geologist. Miss Carrie Barton, instructor in art in the University ot Nebraska, has sent in her resignation to the chancellor and it has been accepted to take effect about March 1st. She goes from there to the Agricultural College of South Dakota where she will receive a, salary of nine hundred dollars a year with a midwinter vacation of four months in which to go on with her own studies in art. Dr. J. H. Pickering has discovered the skull and skeleton of a Mastodon. As soon as the weather permits he is going to have this find dug up and will then present it to the University of Nebraska. Hon. J. W. Woolworth, of Omaha. Hon. T. M. Marvuett, of Lincoln, Hon J. C. Watson, of Nebraska City, repre sentative from Cass and Otoe counties, Rev. D. R. Duugara ,D. D, president ofCotner University and other well known men and prominent lawyers, are on;the board of lecturers in the law college of the University of Nebraska. A student of Nebraska's state Uni versity has recently presented the mu seum with a complete set of the coirs from the boring of a natural gas well! at Hastings. The university author- ltlej desire to secure as many anch sets as possible, as they are of much value in solving many problems in regard to artesian wells in Nebraska. On Wednesday evening, February ltth, Hon. Seta Law, president of Columbia College, New York City, will deliver the address at the annual char tar day exercises of the University of Nebraska. His subject is "The AmeriJ can University." President Law was a classmate of Chancellor Canneld at Columbia, and is a prominent man in the educational world. For twenty years after his graduation from college he was engaged in basinets and was not directly connected with educational work. Than ha was called to the presi dency of his alma mates and his success in that capacity it known every where In college circles. His success seem to clearly show that the essential qual ification of a successful noUage presi dent in these days are not far different from tbt requisites for a successful No pleasure ia comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of the truth. . i ' When a man is "beside himself he fsneraBy demonstrates that he doesn't Hka the oompany. y ; Ton oan be sura of taiat If you are IIoiBgaayaaeaatotstte ahftd hap I7i yea are doing , aoiaeUilui , that una. ... . . ....... e:v , UAttgmtk the rata of bearlv laC3laaefoB3, frst'tt ia a ?tMn!nm In tbt VHAPTEK VIII. . oOSTl.M'Ka It was an open window that looked out on a private court, that ended at Merwvn ttablea Againtt it stood t lad der. When last he had stood at that window. It wat closely shut, and the ladder was certainly not there. Its presence now perplexed and worried the schemer. "Perhaps the officers put it there in trying to set in," reflected Dacre, but uneasily. "At all events. Flora fwt I'll release her, and force the rear door." He approached the vault Its combi nation wat familiar to him. A mere mechanical twirl of the fingers', and the tumblers clicked. Be swnng back the the ponderous door and glanced within, deciding that his prisoner was still insensible, for all was silent Then, a great hollow crv rang from hit lips, for, peering into the gruesome void, be made a marvelous, a tewilder Injr discovery. The vault was empty the banker's daughter was not there! C'HAFTKK IX. WHITHER? "Gone." Arnold Dacre recoiled from the vault door of the Bank with that word gasp ingly uttered, with heart and soul be wildered and benumbed by the startling discovery of the moment. Gone vanished disappeared! What did it mean? What could it mean, but treacberv, or providence! Securely shut In he had left Flora Merwyn. The mas sive door hid been doubly locked. How bad she penetrated that barrier, nr. rather whose hand had II m ated her? Certainly not that of the Sheriff or bis guards. Tbey bad not visited the room since be had left the bank for the Court Wharton? A tierce, passionate rage burned In the plotter's bosom at the sug gestion of that thought. Had his hire ling relented? Would he turn craven at a critical moment? What more natural than that, under the stress of couscicnce ttrlcken misery, he had stolen back to the Lank, rescued the imprisoned Flora, restored the stolen fortune, and washed hit hands of the entire affair by speedy, precipitate flight? With a cry of ungovernable anger, Ar nold Dacre made a bound for the door, as If to overtake and punish his treach eroua subordinate at once. Then he halted abruptly. "Dolt, Idiot that I am!" he ejaculated. 'Why it could not have been Wharton. Be does not even know the combination of the lock." The decision wss a momentary relief, but this emotion speedily gave way to a new and far more Intense dread. It not Wharton, who? Only the dead banker and himself knew the combination, only tbey bad power to enter the vault. Vainly the scheme worried his brain for some solution to the overw elnilng mystery of the moment Speculation, theory, dread, doubt anxiety ran riot in his haunted mind. Then, with a sick ening conviction that somewhere along the line of bis well-laid plans a broken link bad been ungarded, lie left the room and the lank, and proceeding around the square, rung at the frontdoor of the banker's dwelling. Flora had escaped. Flora had been rescued. Flora was free! What would that mean to him? Strongly entrenched behind a carefully-erected fortification, propped up with fraud, forgery, and cunning, he did not so much dread a battle with a penniless orphan. He could set down any public accusation the might ' make as the ravings of a distracted mind, as the natural en deavor of a daughter seeking to cast the blame due her father upon some one else. But a vague Intimation told him that tbe hand which had liberated her was a friendly hand, that a hidden, secret foe, whose identity he could not even surmise, had appeared to disturb his well-laid projects. An enemy in the dark what latent power to unmask, I e tray, and punish, might not this first act of antagonism predicate! The old housekeeper answered his summons. Her nervous, hysterical man ner made her greeting almost incoherent The master was dead and Flora had dis appeared. With stern harshness the cashier sub dued her agitation. "Speak!" be ordered. "Where is Mlts Merwyn?" , "She left tbe house for the bank.hours since. I have not seen her. She has not returned. I went through the cov ered passage way and called her, but the door leading Into the bank it locked." The open window the ladder! Dacre decided that Flora had not returned or been brought to tbe bouse. Where, then? He went around into the little court It had but one entrance from the stable. Rarely used, tbe tiles were moldy and covered with dust, and a disturbed path showed leading from the bottom of the ladder to the carriage house. "Ah! what it thltr Dacre uttered the ttartled eiaculatlon with a movement toward an obiect ly ing on the ground. It was a lace collar. and the pin that bad held it in place bore the Intelligent Initial "F." "Flora came this way." he decided, or was brought this wav. Yea." hi heart sinking, "here are the marks of Jour feet Why! tbe carriage and the two gray horses aro gone." The discovery threw new light mmn the tublect The investigation of the ensuing half-hour verified the growing dread In bit mind, that the mvsterlom disappearance of tbe banker's daughter was oue to a rescue, and that, whoever ber protector, her subsequent safety and retirement froa the proximity of enemies bad been well looked after. For. coming out upon the street, Dacre bad not questioned.half-a-dozen people, before be found one fully able to antwtr hit anxlout leading questions had they seen anything of Mr. Merwyn's close carriage? "I did," confidently announsed one of a group. - "When where?" demanded the eager quottioeer. . - . "Meklof for the river road, law at the edge of the village, jut before aoon." "Ton are surer "Oea'tlkaow the harass? Didn't I as kUrwya't laltial oa the door? The lasMa eartalas wars all drawn, bat 1 gt a lifM as the wfad wafted aae aside. FORTUNE l'laln as I see you now I saw Flora Mer wvn lying back among tbe cushions. suppose she's making off with what her thieving old father didn't steal from the bank." Dacre passed the unjust Insinuation by unheeded. That phase of the case would help his own side of affairs. Prejudice for Flora would militate against any effort tbe made to accuse her father'! cashier of crime. "And the driver?" he queried sharply. "Ob, him! Ho had on a great coat. and a slouch bat drawn down well over his eyes, and drove so fast 1 could not make him out" Arnold Dacre turned from the spot with darkening brows. Who was the mysterious coachman this strange tin known who possessed the secrets of the bank, who knew just how and when to act in the interests of tbe dead banker's daughter? Whither had he removed tbe one living witness to the crime of the cashier? In an agoty of suspense, Dacre hur ried to the nearest livery stable. He or. dered Its swiftest horse, and once mounted dashed down the road that led to tbe city like one mad. At every road tavern and farm house ha halted of every passing pedestrian he made the in cessant inquiry had they seen a close carriage and team or grays? Ao, was tbe invariable reply. Once free of the town, the flying vehicle and its occu pants had disappeared as effectually as though tbe earth had opened and swal lowed them up. A man, making slow, limping progress with the aid of a cane, shambled out of the horseman's way as he dashed past at break-neck speed. It was John Wharton's pensioner, the paralytic, Tom Cupples, bout an his mis sion of secrecy, lie stared strangely at Dacre; he was about to call atter him, but he remembered orders, and plodded on. The excited schemer little dreamed that the toiling cripple upon whom he had barely bestowed a glance, was bearing away to hiding the precious packet he bad entrusted to tbe keeping of the old bank clerk, only a few hours agone. CHAITKR X. TIIK V.NKXOW.W The shades of night were falling as Arnold Daere, an anxious disappointed man, turned his horse's head homewards once more. The long arduous quest had been vain. Here a hint, there a'trace of vehicle and occupants, but only a hint barely a trace clues Indefinite, unreliable, which. followed up, led to nothing. "I give it up!" he muttered grimly, and with savage energy. "They have not gone citywards. West lie the forests, the scattered settlements, and it would bo like looking for a needle in a hay stack to seek them there. One consolation is af forded me, however: Flora Merwyn's mysterious friend seems more of a pro tector than a champion. Were he cog nizant of the true state of affairs, and intending to unmask or fight me, he would have gone straightway to the cny, iu ine lawyers, instead,, they are in hiding. That evidences fear, and affords me time to penetrate their ob scurity later on. To-morrow I will re tiime the hunt more thoroughly and sys tematically. For the present, Important issues aemanu careful attention." ue was wearied as he drove into the llttlo town. He went straight to his lodgings. While he ate a rejuvenating meal, he listened to the gossip of hit landlady. Her tittle-tattle showed that affairs were progressing in full accordance with his well-laid cherished plans. The banker's body bad been removed to uts nome, and prepared for Inter ment An inquest had been held, but the identity of the assassin bad not been established. Meantime a duputy sheriff guarded the bank, and the quieted mob relied on judicial interference to give them their rights eventually. The the ory bad got abroad that Abel Merwyn had been a sly, scheming scouudrcl, in stead of the man of probity and unselfish public spirit he had been ad judged.. Meditating wholesale robbery, adverse speculation had swept his III gotten gains away. It was rumored that the failure bad nearly killed old John Wharton, and that the only person who had striven to save' enough from tbe wreck to pay the beggard deposits, was Arnold Dacre, who had remained at hit post of duty like a hero. Dacre smiled complacently at the In telligence. Then, in the shadows of dusk, he ttole towards the dead banker's mansion. ' It was silent, solemn, and gloomy. Ho meditated a brief call upon the house keeper he would venture an inquiry regarding any possible word she might have obtained concerning the misting Flora. " Just about to go up tbe front steps of the house, however, Dacro started vio lently, and strained his uncertain gaze towards the street again. "It is not possible," he ejaculated, focibly. At the curb stood a conveyance a close carriage. Attached to It. untied drooping, covered with foam, jalded worn out, were two grey horses. It wat tbe Merwyn turn-out tbe self same team that had so mysteriously left the stable eight hours previous. "What does It mean?" Uttering the query vagnely. Arnold Dacre ran excitedly to the tide of tbe vehicle. There was no driver In the seat He pulled open a side door. The vehicle contained no passenger. "Oh! Mr. Dacre." He turned sharply at the words. They were spoken by the housekeeper, who. a handkerchief held hysterically to ber eyes, stood oa the covered tide porch re tarding him.,: "Oh! It la you?" murmured Dacre. "Tell me-MIss Merwyn, Flora she has re turned?" - -(,.. . . "ISO." .!'., i; vm; "Bat this eaglets?" "Wandered up. bare a fe since." .. . "Driven byW r , ; "JXooaat fMasfenotalt Oat where tosineae Utrota what has bsaotaa TIm semester's eras abated with rapid, radted tjhaafvt Tahiw the alMation terteos protestor had rsachid a place ef oclaslon sod safety, had bones loose, aud tbey bad fouad their wav homo at intended. "Pll take them to the tablet." he h. .loud the bridles and led the tired steeds Into the court yard. Jt untooe ening the gates, he looked up as bis name wat called In tones of inquiry, and a form loomed up In the near dltta&ce. "Is that you. Mr. Dacre?" "Yes, who is It? bl the Sheriff. What Is it?' "You are needed." Tbe schemer looked annoyed. "Needed?" he repeated vaguely. "What for? No more bother about the bank, I hope?" "Oh, no; but I think you bad better see your old clerk." "Wharton?" "Yes." "What's tbe matter with him? At if he did not know! Consummate actor! As if he bad not anticipates me very Information about to te awaraea to him! "Well, he t acting mighty queer. "How?" "Cranky peculiar. The people say he's gone clear daft over this trouble. He't got positively unmanageable." Arnold Dacre chuckled to himself. To himself, too. he muttered complacently. tiood! Wharton is carrying out ine scheme nobly." - 'Will ycfu come. He's at bis room ana cutting up badly." Yes," replied uacre, "i n oe mere in fifteen minutes. "Very well." The Sheriff departed down the street in the direction or narion t loaging. Arnold Dacre looked after him with glowing eyes of mingled contempt and triumph. The unsuspecting dolts!" be ejacu lated. "They little dream tbe plot we're playing. Wharton adjudged insane, and irresponsible, and unable to answer cer tain ugly questions about tbe bank ac counts which might be difficult to ex plain, Merwyn dead, the papers all fixed to suit my claims, my course is plain sailing only the girl aud her unknown protector!" be muttered darkly, as he led the horses into the carriage house. If I was sure of her silence aud bit identity, if I could only trace them, I vould feel the victor complete. He groped about until he fount a lan tern on a hook. This he lighted. By its aid he un hitched and stalled the tired horses. Then, taking up the light, he held ' it close to the vehicle. It showed rough usage, evidences of hard driving. A peculiar sandy loam at tached to tbe wheels, and he noted it Hello! that's a clue. They have gone west beyond the swamp lands. I will prosecute my search in that locality to morrow. Ho flashed the lantern through the' door of the carriage next, striving in the appearance of tbe scats, the floor, tbe robes to trace the possiblu movement! of the two persons in whom he was so en- grosseaiy interested. o mud or loam here," he reflected. so the drive was made without stop. Ah! what is this?" What, indeed! with the eagerness of a gold miner groping in the glittering dust for a nugget, Arnold Da rc snatched up card lying just under the driver's teat It was yellow ominous hue. suirveat- Ivo of the tawny flag of Quarantine, the lottery card," the convict tlcketrTTava It was worn, its edges frayed, and bad been trodden into the mire of earless feet He held it nearer the lantern. He glanced at It, stared, recoiled, and, gasp ing for breath, fell back against the sta ble door as if struck there by a powerful blow. The lantern went jangling to the floor. Into his eyes came a weird, superstitious dread, a nameless horror. The truth was revealed now. No need to seek further for the Identity of perse cuted Flora Merwyn's mysterious friend. For thatominous yellow card dropped accidentally by the driver ot ibe car riage, was a revelation complete it told all. His brain reeling, hit senses dis traught, all the past hovering over him like a dark, threatening cloud, all the future menacing him like a flam ing sword, he teemed to tee duplicated in the air everywhere, swaying In ter pentine flashes of lire, the wordt that little card bore: Ccnvlct a.324, Good-Conduct Card. And convict number 2,32s, at he well knew, was the man his villainy had con signed to hideout prison cell, the man whom Flora Merwyn had loved and lost Ray Webster! to be coimsuED. Cheap White gpeage. It is well to be economical, but there is no economy in buying certain articles beMuae they are offered at low prices. Attention has frequently been called, for instance, to the white sponges which are offered for sale by street peddlers and at cheap fancy-goods shops. To begin with, they are not what they are represented to be. namely, nnespongee. On the contrary, they are very coarse. . rnlf. n nigh color being due to a liberal use of chloride of lime. There would be no harm in this artificial bleaching process were the salt entirely washed out of the sponge by soakiac tt clear water or by a solntioofStt. chlorine. But this is not dona, as tow " Ml " th7 result he. been that people who have used the pongee for toilet purposes hare been affected with raftanledkad HMrwaw eyes. Concerning the sae of chloride of lime by these dealers a rtea sponges, a story is told by a New To paper that it ia to dJaafectthe sponam a neceesary process, because of TheaW vious neet to which they have btea ST that., and other namatoas, buTunaX able service. It ia dhicah to hSEH t hotaiaaC&,ww3 permit .ponge. once used by hesa ha disposed of at any pries. Bat the sale of them by thoEatLwaftt ana supervisors of they arojsfftj- farnaoo. 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